As promised – more thinking from our project looking at the challenges in distributed Agile teams . In a distributed team communication shrinks to the basics (egg yellow :). For opportunity-driven communication it’s even worse: lack of shared physical space results in far less triggers that might turn into a conversation: there are not many non-essential activities (no drinking coffee online :), it’s more difficult to observe others and even goal-oriented One of the first things we have observed was a heavy focus on goal-oriented communication between people in different locations: they would talk (this includes ‘type’ :) about solving particular problems around work, but hardly anything else.

With the holidays I somewhat took a break from blogging on our work on the distributed Agile case , but there are still quite a few things there that I wanted to share to hear what do you think. Now to the distributed Agile teams . This picture is not that far from what you can learn by reading about the challenges of distributed Agile and solutions to address them, but hopefully This one is a bit scary since I picked up some ideas from linguistics without having a proper reading of the work behind it, but at times this is the price to pay* for sitting between research and practice. So, the picture on the right is a simplified version of the work of Herbert H.

First, a bit of the context: we are working on a project helping distributed Agile teams to identify challenges they have to deal with and to find solutions for them. And, while my research is pretty much about technology-mediated ways of working, research on distributed teams is not at the core of it. From one side, this makes the whole exercise of figuring out how Agile can work in a distributed team Also, as much as I would like to make it a proper research project (with in-depth state-of-the-art review, large scale data collection and time to process all that), it is more of a research-based consulting: we observe a bit, interview some people, scratch the surface of what had been said on it and hope that our research backgrounds would help to fill in the gaps to come back with useful insights.

Computer mediated - yes, but human driven. Now though, relationship can start as a content mediated intersection and then become personal. 8221; Back in the late 90’s technology was just used for distributed Cops - folks who could not physically be together. 80% of my working time is mediated using social media, from Skype, Google Docs, Twitter, Drupal, Moodle, Elluminate This afternoon I’m spending a half hour on a Skype video conversation to share a bit of how I use social media. I

that used to be distributed manually to a flat website with a bewildering Mediating the Gen Y Cultural War I BLOG A Practical Guide to Implementing Implementing Web 2.0 (aka aka Social Networking Tools) in Your Organization A lot of

While “brand-mediated” profiles and relationships may not seem completely odious on the surface, there are four major drawbacks to keep in mind: * Tying one’s identity and communications to a single silo means relying on a single point of failure, degrading the overall reliability and stability of the system. (Remember We’re seeing the rise of dynamic, portable friend lists and non-brand-mediated identities that can be used across a range of standards-compliant websites. Since 2007, we moved from a document-centric web to a people-centric web, but the new model is not mature yet and limited because of the dominance of siloed proprietary platforms :

storytelling: It is a distributed art form that can range beyond the immediate control of a creator. The study points out that narratives serve as the mediators for externalizing tacit knowledge without writer’s full consciousness. Many (that i refer below) have already assumed that learning through developing and discussing narratives in social web spaces has become a new innovative form of learning. We have developed and tested the course Hybrid ecosystem of narratives in Tallinn University as one approach to understand how narratives appear in hybrid (real +

As you know, I am curious and entranced with electronically mediated communications, relationships, work and learning. Chris Lott is our distributed from the side ring leader, helping us stake out our loosely defined territory. Dear Readers You may NOT know that I’ve never read James Joyce beyond snippets. So when the

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